“I don’t know what the officers were thinking. They very well could not have heard everyone yelling around them.” Oklahoma City police spokesman suggests two cops went deaf in the process of shooting an unarmed deaf man.

Mexico and Japan have sophisticated earthquake warning systems. California's is years away, if not nixed by Trump.

North Carolina joins US Climate Alliance; 14 states—the world's third largest economy—are on track for Paris.

“My time in Barcelona taught me one thing: radicalization is a local phenomenon. It happens on soccer fields, in parks and cafes. Local authorities cannot investigate every person, but if someone is already suspected, the local officials should know about it.” Lessons learned from neuroscience experiments run on radicalized people in Spain.

“The people of airportsmokers.com look out for each other because they need to, but also because they want to.” Apparently the people-who-love-to-smoke community is the “most supportive and kindly corner of the internet.”